WASHOUGAL — When Ray Croswell hunts for blacktail deer, he plans on being successful. At age 74, he’s killed more than 80 deer — including 55 blacktail — so his methods have passed the test of time.

Heading into the woods without a few deer calls isn’t a good plan. Deer use various sounds to communicate with each other from the early part of the season to its end. When you understand the sounds ...

Haugen devoted three seasons to bowhunting this Columbia blacktail, the biggest bodied buck he’s taken. He laid eyes on it one time, moments before darkness fell on this Thanksgiving day. Darkness ...

The general rifle hunting season for Western Washington blacktail deer will start Saturday and run through the end of the month. Hunters across Southwest Washington will head into the woods to try and ...

Craig Miller photographed a fawn and a buck last July from the backyard deck at his North Albany home. Black-tailed deer bucks have velvet-covered antlers in mid-summer. By late summer or early fall, ...